Workshop Reading Dance By Emily Gallier @ Dance Notation Series, Amsterdam

Synchronization
Friday 3 February -Sunday 5 February
11h00-15h00, studio Habertu
Maximum: 12 participants

Sync is a book where the poetry of Jannah Loontjens meets with the choreography on paper by Emilie Gallier and an essay on notation by Daniël Rovers. The choreography on paper turns into performance from the moment one reads it; when the space and time that are inside the book come together with the body of the reader.

This workshop proposes each participant to be the reader of the choreography on paper Sync. Reading the book as a performance, participants become the big spectator, which refers to this reader who is the theatre of the performance, its spectator, performer and co-author.
We will explore the encounter with the book by trying variable beginnings. We will share our physical experiences of reading the choreography on paper – growing from a ground that encompasses movements of thoughts, breathing, shifts of perspectives, and mechanisms of expansion-retraction. We will exchange our versions of the choreography, and re-name/re-write a score according to the newly generated movements of thoughts, imagination, and actions.

Sync with the body of the big spectator focuses on notation and spectatorship. Can the choreography on paper perform beyond and before being defined as merely a tool or a document? Can it act on the level of relation, allowing a change in norms of relation?


The workshop is open to dancers and non-dancers, with an interest in the movement of writing and the writing of movement, in reading a book as a performance.

How to participate:

1.    Choose your beginning:
a.    Starting on Friday 3rd February, 11h-13h, with a session ‘movement of writing and writing of movement’.
b.    Starting on Friday 3rd February, 13h-15h, with a session ‘movement of reading and reading of movement’.
c.    Starting on Saturday 4th February, 11h, joining the two other groups, having received the book a week earlier and started individually at home.
2.    Send your choice to emiliegallier@gmail.com. You will receive a confirmation e-mail.